Too bad I don't have the internet yet

It's been impossible to post anything for ages since I don't have the internet at home or at work, just thought I'd drop one, though I wonder if any of you have kept interest in this blog. I have been writing loads on paper, I'll put some of that up hopefully. I'm working at a school in Canterbury, been doing that since mid-October, it's been really great, teaching French. I have plenty of time to do youth work too, so I am really thankful to God for this position, which actually came about really miraculously! The French teacher in this school is my English teacher's sister!
Anyway, thought I'd write a bit about life before dropping this:

15/11/2006

The autumn trees that keep their leaves
are carnivals of brightness in blue skies
of sunny November days.

But in the night, in the shade of the streetlamps
they become ominous mountains of forms and thoughts.
Every knot and every curve giving a peculiar personality
to the pensive poplar, or is it a maple?

And every leaf, a thought he's holding on to.
Well, this is the season to let go;
Your precious pensées will plane and pose upon
the muddy ground and grass and gravel
and get walked upon by boots and sandals (if a Franciscan monk comes that way).

But friend, this is no disrespect to you,
no, your leaves give us this season's hues.
And if it weren't for that, November would be grey,
life would be so much more depressing and mundane.

Thank the Lord, who by his wonderful word,
holds every branch and leaf and fold and curve together
letting leaves fall and making this season so much better.